Re: [PATCH 0/3] switch to tombstone-free khashl table

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 19, 2024, 21:31 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqy19959b2.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy1a4ao3t.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:
>
>> The memory improvement is minor, but any memory reduction at all
>> is welcome at this point.  Fortunately, this set of changes is
>> unintrusive.
>>
>> I have some other ideas that I'll hopefully get to implement before
>> swapping kills all my SSDs (see bottom).
>
> Please describe what this topic aims at to sell the topic better.
> Are we trying to reduce memory footprint?  In other words, if this
> topic were to hit a released version of Git, what would the short
> paragraph description for the topic in the release notes look like?
> ...

So, did anything happened since this exchange? I remember that we caught and fixed a few minor sparse errors, but other than that, I am not sure what to do with this topic.

Not that I want to merge loud tree-wide topics down during the prerelease period...

Thanks.